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American senior software engineer currently completing a computer science degree in 1 year. ➡️ Shifting focus to building MVPs for startups in December.

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Cameron Chardukian is a tenacious senior software engineer and startup enthusiast, currently conquering a computer science degree in an accelerated one-year sprint. With a rich background in self-teaching and a bold pivot toward building MVPs for startups, Cameron embodies resilience and the spirit of innovation. Their journey is a compelling blend of driven career shifts, strategic learning, and an unwavering pursuit of startup success.

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Cameron’s startup hustle is so intense, they probably auto-draft MVPs in their sleep — but sometimes it seems their biggest MVP is ‘Maybe I'll try again next time’ syndrome.

Successfully secured a competitive senior developer role in Dallas with a lucrative salary, all while managing a complex personal financial situation and gearing up to complete an accelerated CS degree simultaneously.

To innovate and launch impactful tech solutions by blending hands-on engineering skills with entrepreneurial drive, while continuously learning and adapting to create sustainable business ventures.

Cameron champions the ethos of lifelong learning, perseverance through failure, and the value of practical experience over traditional paths. They believe in balancing calculated risks with stable foundations, emphasizing adaptability, and the power of community connections to fuel growth and opportunity.

Exceptional self-motivation, rapid learning ability, and resilience in the face of setbacks, combined with a clear strategic mindset for startup development and practical software engineering expertise.

Occasionally spreads focus too thin by oscillating between high-risk entrepreneurial ventures and structured academic goals, which can slow momentum and dilute efforts.

To grow their audience on X, Cameron should lean into storytelling by sharing more real-time lessons and outcomes from both their startup experiments and accelerated learning journey. Engaging followers with behind-the-scenes MVP builds, candid startup fails, and expertise tips will foster authenticity and attract entrepreneurs and tech learners alike.

Fun fact: Cameron completed a business degree while juggling multiple jobs and is now compressing a full computer science degree into just one year — talk about turning acceleration into an art form!

Top tweets of Cameron Chardukian

A friend @PixeIUIs asked me to give a little background about my computer science degree in 1 year challenge. I became a software engineer in 2019 as a self-taught front-end dev after about 10 months of studying. I started my career in Saigon, Vietnam earning just $700/month and I was thrilled to earn anything tbh because I knew being paid to learn and get better would pay off in the future. I worked at a few companies from 2019-2024 before failing to launch an MVP-as-a-service agency in summer 2024. I didn't yet have the distribution, portfolio, and actual business skills necessary to succeed in generating enough leads to build my own business. I also ran out of savings after my brother ran into big financial troubles and badly needed a five figure loan. Minimal traction and out of cash, in late 2024 I moved back to the US and got a dev job in Dallas paying ~9k USD/month after failing the 3rd (and final round) interview with two companies paying ~12k/month. My new company offered tuition reimbursement fees as one of its benefits so feeling a bit discouraged from my startup failure, I decided I'd go back and earn a CS degree for greater life stability and career prospects. I'd previously graduated with a business degree in 2018 that I earned over the course of 1.5 years while working multiple jobs. I earned that degree through a mix of CLEP exams, third party credit providers like @Studydotcom and @StraighterLine, and by choosing to attend a university with a generous transfer credit policy and minimal residency credit hours required @tesu_edu. This time, however, I decided I'd earn a computer science degree from @wgu. WGU is actually the largest US university by enrollment and they have an ABET accredited computer science degree program. The thing that makes them special, however, is that they have a credit by competency approach. This meant that instead of signing up for a couple 16 week courses each semester, I could instead build projects or pass exams to prove my competence with a given subject. Once I proved I was competent at a subject like Discrete Math or Linux, WGU would allow me to move on to the next course. This was HUGE because it allowed me to FLY through topics that I was already skilled in like web development and java fundamentals. Like TESU, WGU also provides a generous transfer policy. Because of that, in November 2024 I started working on courses from various third-party providers. By May 2025, I was able to transfer 6 courses from @sophia and 7 courses from @Studydotcom. I then paid the $4,295 tuition and started a 6-month term at WGU at the beginning of June. Now, I'm down to my last five courses and with some hard work will finish an entire CS degree before the end of November 2025. In the end, I'll have learned a lot about computer science, became a better engineer, and the degree plus knowledge I gained along the way will make getting better full-stack jobs in the future easier. If I could go back in time a year would I do this again? Maybe not. I probably would've focused on building an audience or getting better at marketing to generate leads so my MVP-as-a-service business could get traction. Yet, I chose this road because alternating higher and lower risk moves is a good way of maintaining motivation while still keeping the habit of taking action. If you only do 9-5 type stuff, your life and trajectory become very predictable. Yet, only trying indie hacking type stuff can also drive you a bit crazy. Not everyone has the mental fortitude @marc_louvion had to build stuff for 6 years while often feeling like a loser until something eventually made decent money. And while I applaud the persistence of Marc Lou and @levelsio to keep going until some shots on goal land (he's the GOAT and even he said only ~5% of his startups became highly profitable), they're likely significantly outnumbered by those that ship one or two startups, earn $12mrr, and then give up for good. I just took a break from startups to let the fire burn again and I will give it another go in a few months being better prepared than I was last time :D

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I’ve been quiet here the last 5 weeks because I’ve been figuring out what to do with my life. 😔 SwiftLaunch (my MVP agency) received a couple hundred visits in its first few months (May-Aug), but only 1 project request. That client ghosted after I asked to schedule a call to discuss their proposal. It’s an existential angst when you don’t have revenue coming in, savings are steadily going down, and your resume gap is also getting wider and making it more challenging to go the corporate route again. I have so many things I still need to learn. I’m great with the frontend, and can put a decent backend together, but I lack hugely important things like: 1. A significant following 2. Great marketing/sales skills 3. Design skills These take time to develop. But I noticed that my personal productivity was lower than expected when going fully solo. For example, when I work a full-time job I’m paid for 40 hours and I have enough mental energy to do another 2 hours or so of side project work per night. On the other hand, when I was going full on with SwiftLaunch I could only do about 4-5 hours per day of “deep work” before I’d be pretty much dead for the day. Is sacrificing that corporate experience and income worth an extra 2 hours of “deep work” on my business each day worth it? I don’t think it is yet unfortunately. So where do I go from here? I know that in the long-term building a business is the only way to move beyond upper middle class, but it seems I don’t have the skills to make it work yet. Being a digital nomad is cool. Not many people can say they’ve been to 5 countries in the last 5 months. It’s a lot less fun, however, when you’re bootstrapping and trying to live lean so you can extend your runway. After 10 years in Southeast Asia (mostly VN) and 10 countries visited, the novelty of traveling is wearing off a bit and I’m more interested in high level lifestyle optimizations (gym, organic food, ergonomic workspace, network, etc) than adding new passport stamps every month or two (though I’d still love to take regular trips). I’ve lost 20 pounds of mostly muscle in the last 4.5 months mostly because it’s challenging to have the right gym routine and diet when you’re trying to bootstrap and are constantly on the move. On another note, I feel conflicted on if my future children will have a better childhood growing up in the US or Vietnam. The thought of being wealthy in Vietnam is one of my biggest motivators for thinking outside the traditional climb the corporate ladder path. Vietnam has better family values, more stable relationship dynamics, and people are just happier. I feel happier in Vietnam too. I feel like people there are better conversationalists whereas in US it feels like people are thinking about what they’re about to say vs actually listening to you. But how much of this is culture vs my higher purchasing power and social status? In any case, the US has better education whether public or home schooling (unless I want to drop $30,000/year per kid on a top international school in VN), and it’s straightforward for me to make 200k+ within the next several years if based in the US. My self-trust tells me I’ll be ok no matter which path I go down, but there’s always a part of me that wants to continue analyzing what the “right” move is. For now, I’ve landed a decent dev job in Dallas, Texas at roughly $9,000/month which will start in a couple weeks. I probably should be closer to 10-11k monthly in a regular tech market, but with mass layoffs and current market conditions this was the best I could find. I now have immediate financial stability, what’s next? I guess it will be continue to build on the side and only quit again in the future if I 2x my W2 income or 1x W2 income and relocate to Vietnam or somewhere else with a low cost of living. But my girlfriend can’t get a visa to come to the US so what should I do there? That’ll have to be part II because this post is already a novel 📖😆

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Most engaged tweets of Cameron Chardukian

A friend @PixeIUIs asked me to give a little background about my computer science degree in 1 year challenge. I became a software engineer in 2019 as a self-taught front-end dev after about 10 months of studying. I started my career in Saigon, Vietnam earning just $700/month and I was thrilled to earn anything tbh because I knew being paid to learn and get better would pay off in the future. I worked at a few companies from 2019-2024 before failing to launch an MVP-as-a-service agency in summer 2024. I didn't yet have the distribution, portfolio, and actual business skills necessary to succeed in generating enough leads to build my own business. I also ran out of savings after my brother ran into big financial troubles and badly needed a five figure loan. Minimal traction and out of cash, in late 2024 I moved back to the US and got a dev job in Dallas paying ~9k USD/month after failing the 3rd (and final round) interview with two companies paying ~12k/month. My new company offered tuition reimbursement fees as one of its benefits so feeling a bit discouraged from my startup failure, I decided I'd go back and earn a CS degree for greater life stability and career prospects. I'd previously graduated with a business degree in 2018 that I earned over the course of 1.5 years while working multiple jobs. I earned that degree through a mix of CLEP exams, third party credit providers like @Studydotcom and @StraighterLine, and by choosing to attend a university with a generous transfer credit policy and minimal residency credit hours required @tesu_edu. This time, however, I decided I'd earn a computer science degree from @wgu. WGU is actually the largest US university by enrollment and they have an ABET accredited computer science degree program. The thing that makes them special, however, is that they have a credit by competency approach. This meant that instead of signing up for a couple 16 week courses each semester, I could instead build projects or pass exams to prove my competence with a given subject. Once I proved I was competent at a subject like Discrete Math or Linux, WGU would allow me to move on to the next course. This was HUGE because it allowed me to FLY through topics that I was already skilled in like web development and java fundamentals. Like TESU, WGU also provides a generous transfer policy. Because of that, in November 2024 I started working on courses from various third-party providers. By May 2025, I was able to transfer 6 courses from @sophia and 7 courses from @Studydotcom. I then paid the $4,295 tuition and started a 6-month term at WGU at the beginning of June. Now, I'm down to my last five courses and with some hard work will finish an entire CS degree before the end of November 2025. In the end, I'll have learned a lot about computer science, became a better engineer, and the degree plus knowledge I gained along the way will make getting better full-stack jobs in the future easier. If I could go back in time a year would I do this again? Maybe not. I probably would've focused on building an audience or getting better at marketing to generate leads so my MVP-as-a-service business could get traction. Yet, I chose this road because alternating higher and lower risk moves is a good way of maintaining motivation while still keeping the habit of taking action. If you only do 9-5 type stuff, your life and trajectory become very predictable. Yet, only trying indie hacking type stuff can also drive you a bit crazy. Not everyone has the mental fortitude @marc_louvion had to build stuff for 6 years while often feeling like a loser until something eventually made decent money. And while I applaud the persistence of Marc Lou and @levelsio to keep going until some shots on goal land (he's the GOAT and even he said only ~5% of his startups became highly profitable), they're likely significantly outnumbered by those that ship one or two startups, earn $12mrr, and then give up for good. I just took a break from startups to let the fire burn again and I will give it another go in a few months being better prepared than I was last time :D

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I’ve been quiet here the last 5 weeks because I’ve been figuring out what to do with my life. 😔 SwiftLaunch (my MVP agency) received a couple hundred visits in its first few months (May-Aug), but only 1 project request. That client ghosted after I asked to schedule a call to discuss their proposal. It’s an existential angst when you don’t have revenue coming in, savings are steadily going down, and your resume gap is also getting wider and making it more challenging to go the corporate route again. I have so many things I still need to learn. I’m great with the frontend, and can put a decent backend together, but I lack hugely important things like: 1. A significant following 2. Great marketing/sales skills 3. Design skills These take time to develop. But I noticed that my personal productivity was lower than expected when going fully solo. For example, when I work a full-time job I’m paid for 40 hours and I have enough mental energy to do another 2 hours or so of side project work per night. On the other hand, when I was going full on with SwiftLaunch I could only do about 4-5 hours per day of “deep work” before I’d be pretty much dead for the day. Is sacrificing that corporate experience and income worth an extra 2 hours of “deep work” on my business each day worth it? I don’t think it is yet unfortunately. So where do I go from here? I know that in the long-term building a business is the only way to move beyond upper middle class, but it seems I don’t have the skills to make it work yet. Being a digital nomad is cool. Not many people can say they’ve been to 5 countries in the last 5 months. It’s a lot less fun, however, when you’re bootstrapping and trying to live lean so you can extend your runway. After 10 years in Southeast Asia (mostly VN) and 10 countries visited, the novelty of traveling is wearing off a bit and I’m more interested in high level lifestyle optimizations (gym, organic food, ergonomic workspace, network, etc) than adding new passport stamps every month or two (though I’d still love to take regular trips). I’ve lost 20 pounds of mostly muscle in the last 4.5 months mostly because it’s challenging to have the right gym routine and diet when you’re trying to bootstrap and are constantly on the move. On another note, I feel conflicted on if my future children will have a better childhood growing up in the US or Vietnam. The thought of being wealthy in Vietnam is one of my biggest motivators for thinking outside the traditional climb the corporate ladder path. Vietnam has better family values, more stable relationship dynamics, and people are just happier. I feel happier in Vietnam too. I feel like people there are better conversationalists whereas in US it feels like people are thinking about what they’re about to say vs actually listening to you. But how much of this is culture vs my higher purchasing power and social status? In any case, the US has better education whether public or home schooling (unless I want to drop $30,000/year per kid on a top international school in VN), and it’s straightforward for me to make 200k+ within the next several years if based in the US. My self-trust tells me I’ll be ok no matter which path I go down, but there’s always a part of me that wants to continue analyzing what the “right” move is. For now, I’ve landed a decent dev job in Dallas, Texas at roughly $9,000/month which will start in a couple weeks. I probably should be closer to 10-11k monthly in a regular tech market, but with mass layoffs and current market conditions this was the best I could find. I now have immediate financial stability, what’s next? I guess it will be continue to build on the side and only quit again in the future if I 2x my W2 income or 1x W2 income and relocate to Vietnam or somewhere else with a low cost of living. But my girlfriend can’t get a visa to come to the US so what should I do there? That’ll have to be part II because this post is already a novel 📖😆

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